Part of the deal you took when you got the billion trillion dollars is that we get to make fun of you for being a sellout, why are they trying to renegotiate now?

OpenAI wasn’t doing it for this person, they’re going to work on telepathy?

I believe in about:config it’s mostly under browser.ml.

browser.ml.chat.enabled => False, browser.ml.enable => False and extensions.ml.enabled => False I think are the minimum changes?

To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software.

Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust

I know this outcome was inevitable after software became a mass market thing, but it’s still rather depressing.

Trump likes AI and they like Trump too much to dislike something he likes.

As long as the offer’s open, it will be irresistible. So we need to close the offer. Only another god can kill Moloch. We have one on our side, but he needs our help. We should give it to him.

I’d write something here, but there’s nothing funnier I can say.

Remove the profit motive of gambling is prohibition, what???

Polymarket when faced with the oracle problem: “What if we threaten to shoot the oracle?”

A worldview where one’s worth is measured by the balance in their bank account makes it really easy to flatten out morality.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994169 As with bitcoin before it, LLM dev cycles are now tied with the phases of the moon.

The real damning thing is the speed that the true believers abandoned this garbage fire. You used to be able to string these guys along for years, and now they can barely keep the trend going for a week. Gonna be real weird when the scammers realize they’ve finally burnt out all the good will.

Crosslinking SRD: https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1p88k7d/guys_were_gonna_be_okay_maybe_not_today_maybe_not/

Observing AI psychosis from a distance is so fascinating. “Valentine just got nerfed for me.” What???

Hank Green has been one of my barometers for the moderate opinion and he’s sounding worryingly like Zitron in his last video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0TpWitfxPk

The attention black hole around nvidia and AI is so insane, I guess it’s because there’s everyone knows there’s no next thing to jump onto.

if there isn’t, I’m calling it muskware, its conceptually close enough to vaporware.

The truth is that we feel shame to a much greater degree than the other side, which makes it pretty easy to divide us on these annoying trivialities.

My personal hatred of tone policing is greater than my sense of shame, but I imagine that isnt something to expect for most.

I guess keeping in theme, “vibe replying”

Go off, Alsup.

I think it’s a piece in the long line of “AI means A and B, and A is bad and B can be good, so not all AI is bad”, which isn’t untrue in the general sense, but serves the interest of AIguys who aren’t interested in using B, they’re interested in promoting AI wholesale.

We’re not in a world where we should be offering AI people any carveout; as you mention in the second half, they aren’t interested in being good actors, they just want a world where AI is societally acceptable and they can become the Borg.

More directly addressing your piece, I don’t think the specific examples you bring up are all that compelling. Or at least, not compared to the cost of building an AI model, especially when you bring up how it’ll be cheaper than traditional alternatives.

At the risk of doing some “founder mode” idiot’s homework for them, impermanence is inherent to a lot of artforms, and I can see some insane and vague pitches to use quantum to “capture the magic moment”. Or maybe they tie it back into NFTs with quantum technology that comes up with every variant of the bored chimpanzee at once.

1. The inability to objectively measure model usability outside of meme benchmarks that made it so easy to hype up models have come back to bite them now that they actually need to prove GPT-5 has the sauce.
2. Sam got bullied by reddit into leaving up the old model for a while longer, so its not like its a big lift for them to keep them up. I guess part of it was to prove to investors that they have a sufficiently captive audience that they can push through a massive change like this, but if it gets immediately walked back like this, then I really don’t know what the plan is.
3. https://progress.openai.com/?prompt=5 Their marketing team made this comparing models responding to various prompts, afaict GPT-5 more frequently does markdown text formatting, and consumes noticeably more output tokens. Assuming these are desirable traits, this would point at how they want users to pay more. Aside: The page just proves to me that GPT was funniest in 2021 and its been worse ever since.